50 lofts needed in East Africa and Pigeon Loft 271 to serve Bombers USAAF, 1943

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Catalog numbers:  AIR23/998

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NOTE:  Yesterday, March 7, marks the 75^th anniversary of the Allied capture of the Ludendorf Bridge across the Rhine.  For an account of this operation, check out “Hitler’s Last Bridge,” an episode of the TV documentary World War II’s Greatest Raids, produced in 2014.